Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-24
COME ON, BOYS
TIE NORTH STATE TROOPS AND TIE
LIE MONUMENT.
a circular-Letter from Governor Scales
Twenty Companies-More Illicit
Distillsries Captured-Noles.
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RALEIGH, N. o., September 3D.
Governor Scales to-day approved cir
cular-letter which in few days will be
sent to all the troops in the State in
reference to their presence at Richmond
and participation in the Lee Monument
ceremonies. II is desired and expected
that the First, Second, Third, and
Fourth regiments OF infantry and a
troop OF cavalry be present. The
movement is voluntary, and the troops
will be aided by their respective COM
munities. The Adjutant- General writes
the Governor that the attendance OF
twenty companies can probably be Sc
cured upon such invitation by the Gov
ernor. The plan is to put the troops
into Richmond October 26th, and ar
range for their departure two days later.
Governor Scales is deeply interested in
the matter, ard desires that the entire
force will attend. There is unfortu-
natcly no military fund to meet the ex-
penses, but the latter will be very light.
The State will furnish camp equipage.
Favorable replies to the circular are
confidently expected.
Cotton receipts here this week are
$500 bales. Total since September LIST,
1850 bales an increase over last season
to date of $500 bales.
The equinoctiai storm set in to-day
The weather turned cold in few hours
A great deal of rain has fallen and it
appears to be general.
A posse of revenue officers have cap
tured two illicit distllleries in Catawba
county. One was in operation. The
operators escaped capture.
The cotton-gin of George Messengill,
in Johnston county, was burned Tues
day night with a quantity of cotton.
Loss, 81, eco nearly all insured.
Polly Scopeland, negro woman, is
under arrest at Wilmington for horribly
burning q little girl with poker which
she had heated red-hot. The child is
badly mutilated.
Reports from the Person and Caswell
tobacco district are to the effect that
the quality of the new crop is better
than in several years. The leaf is large
and oily, but the color is remarkably
fine.
1t would appear that the plans for
widening and deepening the Dismal
Swamp canal have failed for the pres
ent 1t was expected that they were
so perfected as to assure the early COM
mencement of that important work.
There is money in the scheme of making
it q broad and deep waterway, and
both Virginia and North Carolina are
deeply interested in the matter.
Mr.. John Peasants, of Person county,
has wife whose love and bravery re-
call the days of chivalry, when lady
sucked the poison from her husbands
arrow-wound. Mr.. Peasants was bitten
on the wrist by highland moccasin,
deadly serpent. His heroic wife,
placing her lips to the wound, sucked
nearly all the poison out, and no doubt
saved her husbands life.
Ex-Governor W. w. Holden, who
once figured so prominently in the
history of this State, has been very sick
at his home here. Some years ago he
was paralyzed, and ever since his health
has been precarious. His last attack
leaves him very weak, but able to walk.
He leads now very quiet and retired
life.
North Carolina is always at the front
when strange occurrences are told of,
and just now scores another in this race
for novelty. A farmer of Mecklenburg
county owns n tame crow which goes
to the cotton.feld and picks
as much in day as any of the human
pickers. With its beak it twists the
cotton out and puts it in a bag. The
owner of this truly rare bird. rs well
as his neighbors, declare that the state
ment is true in all respects.
a final attempt will be made during
the State Fair to have o meeting OF ex-
Confederates here aud take final action
in regard TO the establishment of a
home for Confederates in North Caro-
lima. Very little has as yet come Of the
for such home. The meet
ing will either endorse the scheme and
push it or Will drop it as impractical
bic and undesirable. It's claimed that
in the State there are at least 200 OF
the veterans who need aid and shelter
such home would give.
A party who visited the lighthouse
at Hatteras says that there is one
curious phenomenon not generally
known. This is the perpetual motion OF
the lighthouse. In the calmest weather
it moves several inches, with a motion
as regular as that Of pendulum, and
during storms this motion is main
tanned. The other lighthouses do not
exhibit this constant molten in storm
and calm alike.
Wilmington's increase Of cotton re-
ceipts as compared with last season is
II, 738 bales. This in the greatest in
crease on record, for only three weeks
of the season have passed.
Yesterday Mr.. John Robinson, Com
missioner of Agriculture, addressed a
farmers institute at Burgaw. He is
booked TO speak at several others.
An Episcopal church was dedicated
to-day at Gamblers, Buncombe county.